stuckincincy

I think your posts are worthwhile reads, to date.

One of the saddest victims of today's society is...Getting The General Idea. Got it? Good.

You are welcome. And your resistance is fortunate. If refinement starts to encroach, you will find yourself battling about best chicken wings and how you are dirt if you are not sufficiently eclectic in your habits, and will have to purchase 12 dollar grilled cheese and bacon sandwiches unless you want to be lablled as dope; hang your head in irrecoverable shame if you don't shop at Wegmans' (need I mention Wegman Water?). So far - you need not fry turkeys. So far...

Well...that's a civil service worker for you, eh? Buzz off and clear off the ice or whatever you may have dumped on your property these past few days...

Not totally true, though. There are good ones...

I'm reducing my prediction of it being 30 years until everybody works for the State and has all aspects of one's life controlled, or dies...to 20 years.

Gee. On one hand you agree with me, and say I'm not making things up, then on the other hand you get co-opted by one of my stalker's posts and now say I am, and have to back up my point. God help us if you get a job that actually matters, after your years and years of dining at the taxpayer's table... What damage do you hold in store for us?

All you say is true. Some people rate whiskey in terms of how much diesel taste there is, how much it tastes like burnt wood and other earthy descriptives. I like such people. They are honest whiskey drinkers, no pretensions and plainly enjoy the drinking of it for the GAAAA! as it burns down the throat and starts to cloud the mind. I like your selections. I'd add Kessler's. The best feature of any whiskey is to let one become

Hmm...could be. It wasn't a corner property. A neighborhood bar - 40 to 70 year old patrons. It wasn't on any bar crawl route.

Gee...I seem to have struck the gravy train nerve... And I'm not about to hunt down and provide links to what anyone with an ounce of brains, who reads their newspapers, hasn't shaken their heads at for years...

When I worked at a university, I was told to write a Safety Plan for a funded study to determine the volatility of lead when subjected to elevated temperatures. Before I wrote the plan, I met with the bunch that got the grant, armed with a data table from a Beilstein/Gmelin reference text from the 1930's IIRC. Didn't work. They had the $$$, were determined to re-invent an old wheel, and I wrote the plan. This is just one example...

Is the old Pastime Bar still there? (not the one on Grant corner Forest) Farmer?...Austin? I forget.

I am convinced that today, one could be awarded a Masters degree in Education with a thesis like this: "The Impact of the Bus Stop at the Northwest Corner of W. Ferry and Delaware on the Socio-Economic Matrix of the Greater Metropolitan Buffalo Area".

Ads don't matter, what with the usual crass, tasteless, brag-fest halftime show broadcast to the rest of the world.

No...but I have personally been involved in gov't science grants for 5 years at one job, and my wife for about 30 years. What are your "creds"?

Perhaps you are thinking about Annie Sprinkle?

The feds plow through thousands and thousands of requests for scientific grants every year. A fair portion are from lunatics. And there is no shortage of Congressmen who have earmarks, make direct Congressional appropriations to fund this or that useless project, projects that are asking (and getting) money for things already well-established. Not just the hard sciences. Some of the ones I see in the papers are lulus. Things like "Research show obese people tend to eat more food", or "Students in high school who are discipline problems do worse in academics".

You are very, very wrong to pick on a substantial percentage of unfailingly loyal Democratic Party voters. The Democrats in Congress are angry, and WILL ensure that their voting base will be taken CARE OF. Right?

We have the same crowd here in Cincinnati. Lately, they want trolleys to run from high crime district to high crime district across downtown. Previously, they wanted rail transit to the suburbs. The fact that buses subsidized by taxpayers for years have routinely had abysamal ridership - I'm talking one or two riders per bus - doesn't faze them. I have found that the movers/shakers of such, at least locally here in Cincinnati, have some common characteristics: 1. They are of old money. And have plenty of it, well-protected. 2. They live in old, very spiffy domiciles. Domestic staffs, guard dogs. You are not welcome to approach. 3. They always refer to themselves as a "man of vision, of progress, and want to improve the community. And tell us unwashed how we "but need to listen". 4. They love to say how they will lead the charge to get government (taxpayer) money. There is no parade too small for a "man of vision" to hop into the front of. Sound familiar?

Quite right - deal with the experienced ones IMO. 1. Never give out a phone #. 2. Dunno about any lack of experienced salesmen. I've been looking for the past year, to buy a vehicle for my wife to replace our '98 Malibu. I never trade in. I've come across plenty of astute, non-slappy salesmen. And also some of the slappy types as you mention. We bought a vehicle that we preferred, from a dealership we took demo rides with (3 vehicles). Nothing special about that - they were not the only ones that were happy to see a potential customer try out the offerings. That's the biz -what a good sales force does. I asked for the 55 year-old guy that we spoke with previous, - when I went in to work the deal when we decided on the car we liked most. He wasn't on duty, so I dealt with a younger fellow with 10 year's experience. The original contact came in while we were dickering. I asked him if he would get a cut of the sale - he said yes, that stuff has been worked out a long time ago...which I knew. I have an affinity for stores that have a commissioned sales staff - its' worked out well for me through the years. I once financed a vehicle. Dealt with a dealership's "FI" (Finance&Insurance) man. That taught me to curb my desires and save up before I bought another vehicle from a retailer. I figure I left about 500 bucks on the table, though, this time...I had need to have a new vehicle with warranty for my wife (ten years extra bumper to bumper Hyundai sedan...good deal, a waste of $, I can't say. But I can only hope I'm around in 10 years to see if I was wrong. ). The trusty 10 year-old Chev Malibu is wheezing with nice body but leaky intake manifold gasket (no trade-in...with our age, its' age, and high deductible on the old girl cost us a hundred bucks to insure it per year, so it is a keeper for occasional usage).

I'd like to see LB Curry drop to us.

Waaah... ..."On January 15, 2005, Robbins was shot three times during a brawl with police in Miami Beach, and was subsequently charged with attempted murder for his role. Under a plea agreement, Robbins pled guilty to five charges, including the attempted murder charge, and was sentenced to five years probation, ordered to receive treatment for his bipolar disorder, and to avoid alcohol."... ..."On September 21, 2007, a warrant was issued for his arrest by Miami-Dade police for a parole violation stemming from his run in with police in 2005. To date, authorities have not been able to locate him for extradition back to Florida."... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barret_Robbins

Alleged signed deal for purchase price...something out there isn't passing the smell test... Zero down payment? 0% mortgage on a 200K house with an adjustable-rate mortgage, 20k credit card debt, maybe? Dealers are bending over backwards to move stock and get cash flow these days...real cash, not 5th-in-line promises of cash... As you note - if the deal is signed, just show up with the...cash.

None whatsoever. The advertising blitz has been relentless, for a long time. Question : I wonder if the local stations that have run constant spots about the transition get to "deduct" them, so so speak, from FCC requirements for public programming/service? They certainly have a revenue concern about viewers - thick-skulled as they may be - not getting their programming.

Mulberry. Which was cancelled by the BBC before it came to its' necessary conclusion - I had heard that new management simply decided not to produce the final, concluding season. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_(TV_series) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103496/